Art
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Acting Out: Create a Play Using Sculpture - Combining appreciation for outdoor sculpture with drama (Y, M, O, T)
Cross-platform Animation Software - Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source. There is an abbreviated online user manual and a forum for users. (Y, M, O, T)
Baby Honu (Pacific Green Sea Turtle) Origami - (Y, M, O, T)
Picturing America - An exciting new initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities, brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries nationwide. Through this innovative program, students and citizens will gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art. (Y, M, O, T)
Exploratorium - The museum of science, art and human perception. Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 18 thousand award-winning Web pages exploring hundreds of different topics. (Y, M, O, T)
Cheeky Monkey Magazine - This new online magazine (it's in PDF format) features the artwork and writing of homeschool students. There is no cost for the subscription and some of the work is quite good. They even pay a small fee if the work is published. Whether you just want to see what other homeschoolers are accomplishing or want to submit work of your own, Cheeky Monkey is worth a look (Y, M, O, T)
Portsmouth - Courthouse Galleries Programs - The Courthouse Galleries, housed in the 1846 Courthouse, are devoted to offering quality educational, cultural and aesthetic experiences in the arts through rotating visual art exhibits, lectures, classes, and performances. Outdoor Sculpture Competition February 8 - October 12, 2008 The outdoor sculpture exhibition, now in its third year, is displayed in the historic courtyard of the Courthouse Galleries. New Revolutions - Wood-turners from Tidewater February 8 - May 4, 2008 - Entrance Galleries Featured in this exhibition are wood-turners from the tidewater region of Virginia, many of whom are members of the Tidewater Turners. Works by Bob Chiavarini, Tom Crabb, Mike Dennis, Cliff Guard, Jim Vogle, Wolfgang Voglebean and Jerry Whitehurst are offered. (Y, M, O, T)
ArtBug Mail - This is a new resource for homeschooling families, designed by a homeschooling family in BC, Canada. Frëë art tutorials and art software designed especially for 4 – 10 year olds are available from their website. A private online art gallery service for children (allowing them to easily archive their own work) and the first completely safe art email service for children as young as four years old are offered as a low-cost resource but are not required to access the fr๋๋ resources. Angela and Jon have made their own children's art galleries viewable on their website to give other families an idea of what their own children's art galleries could look like. Family membership on the website (for up to four children), is $5.95 per month and the annual family membership offers best value, equivalent to $4.83 per month, but you can use it at NO COST for the rest of 2007. All you need to do is download the software and follow the instructions on the setup wizard and you will have fully featured membership for fr๋๋ee for the rest of 2007. (Y)
Islamic Art and Culture - Large collection of links to cultural resources (Y, M, O, T)
Geometry and Islam - A short student activity that introduces why patterns are used in Islamic books, textiles and architecture and how to use a compass and a ruler to create two common patterns. (Y, M, O, T)
Vatican Museums On Line - View the collections Online, Read about the artworks and Zoom into the details of paintings, frescoes and artworks. (Y, M, O, T)
Vatican Virtual Tour - (Y, M, O, T)
Vatican Virtual Tour Practise - See how much you learned after taking the Vatican Virtual Tour (Y, M, O, T)
LEGO® Madness - Want to motivate your kids to turn off the computer and television this summer? Send them to this website and I bet their play area will be strewn with LEGO® pieces before you know it. Eric Harshbarger has created hundreds of sculptures and mosaics using LEGO® pieces. Photos of them (some with multiple views) are posted on his website, along with a detailed FAQ to satisfy the curiosity of inspired artists-to-be. (Y M)
A. Pintura, Art Detective - Eduplace has put together a fun site for teaching the difference between the masters. Using a "choose your own adventure" format, visitors explore the artists while trying to determine who created a painting that the main character, Miss Featherduster, found in her attic. If the visitor chooses an incorrect solution, the site will point them back on the right track. A. Pintura is a fun way to pull some learning into summer. (M)
Japan - Images of a People - From the Smithsonian Center for Museum and Educational Studies (M)
Kids at Art - The Imagination Factory - Kids at Art is a website dedicated to teaching how to use recycling in art. In addition to many projects, the site includes an exploration of various artwork around the country. (Y, M, O, T)
Didjeridoo - From the Aboriginal Australia Art & Culture Centre in Alice Springs. (Y, M, O, T)
Eyes on Art - A collection of resources for teaching art, including projects, ArtSpeak 101 (a visual glossary), compare and contrast activities, exploring "unknown artists", tracking art over time; includes a teacher's guide (M, O)
Artist Quest - (Y, M, O, T)
First Gov for Kids - First Gov is the U.S. government interagency Kids' Portal. The site was developed and is maintained by the Federal Citizen Information Center and provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject. Explore, learn, have fun and don't forget to add us to your favorites! (Y)
KinderArt - Despite its name, KinderArt is not just a resource for primary grades. Whether you are looking for drawing lessons for your middle-schooler or multi-cultural holiday crafts for any age, KinderArt is the place to look. The site includes lesson plans and project ideas. (Y)
Animate Your World - "Animate Your World: Shaping Character is a fun, innovative, and unique CD-ROM program designed to help educators, both in and out of the classroom, incorporate character education skills into their everyday curricula... AYW provides students the tools they'll need to create their own custom animation, using positive character traits and behaviors learned through the countless activities and resources found on the CD-ROM." Both my kids love using this software to created animated short features. (Y, M, O, T)
National Gallery of Art Loaner Program - Connect art and curriculum by borrowing free learning materials from the National Gallery of Art’s Division of Education. (T)
How to read a painting - "As a result of this learning episode, students will be able to follow a structured method of critiquing an art work to discover its substance and meaning." (Y M O)
Teach Art at Home - excellent resource by an art teach with monthly newsletter and free online projects (Y, M, O, T)
Art Attack! - Great site for art! There is a nice list of projects with easy to find supplies. This is not your preschooler's art! This site is graphic intensive so it takes awhile to load, but those of you who like step-by-step pictures will love it. Thanks to Sherry (Y, M, O, T)
Color Theory and Mixing - art lessons online from WetCanvas.com (O)
Interactive Colorwheel - Experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luma. (O)
Virtual tours - Virtual Tours of Museums, Exhibits and Points of Special Interest (M,O)
Art sparkers - ideas to spark the art imagination in your children (Y, M, O, T)
Art Capades - activities to encourage kids to think about the things they see (Y, M, O, T)
Create Line Art - Students of all grades will recreate works of art by analyzing their lines. (Y, M, O, T)
The Values of Color: Drawing Shades and Tints - (Y, M, O, T)
The Art Zone - From the National Gallery of Art Kids' site, the Art Zone is an interactive online art studio. Hate the mess of paint, scissor, and glue? Try the online collage maker, the Paint Box, the Pixel Maker, and more. The Art Zone will keep your artist busy for hours. (Y,T)
Mr. PicassoHead - A friend sent this great site to an unschooling list of which I am a member. It is so cool! I just spent the past 15 minutes creating my very own Mr. PicassoHead masterpiece. Once your child creates a painting, you can email it to yourself to save a copy. (Y, M, O, T)